The body doesn't lie, but it does speak in metaphor

A lesson in emotional literacy disguised as a craving for carbs

Most of my life, I didn’t crave sweets.

Not really. I could walk past the dessert table, admire the tiramisu, and keep moving. Sugar was never the siren song it seemed to be for others.

And then, in the middle of my healing journey, something changed.

It wasn’t a sudden addiction to candy bars or late-night binges. It was something quieter, more specific. Chocolate croissants. Scones made with currants and orange rinds. That flaky, buttery sweetness that seemed to whisper a promise I didn’t know I needed.

When I mentioned it to my holistic doctor, she smiled and said, half-joking but fully serious:

You just need sweetness in your life.

It landed. Hard. And ever since, when the craving calls, it’s her voice I hear.

Not as a warning, but as a reminder.

Because here’s the thing no one tells you—

Diets don’t work when we’re misreading the signal.

When the body cries for sweetness, we reach for food. But the body is far more poetic than literal. It doesn’t just ask for calories. It asks for care.

• We crave sugar, but it might be softness.

• We crave crunch, but it might be clarity.

• We crave full... but maybe it’s belonging.

Your hunger is intelligent. But it’s also encrypted. And if we try to decode it only through food rules and restriction charts, we’ll keep missing the real message.

This is the part the diet industry won’t touch:

Your body isn’t just metabolizing food. It’s metabolizing unmet needs.

Most diets are structured around behavior, not biology. Or worse: they skip over emotion entirely. They tell you what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat... but they rarely ask: what are you actually digesting right now?

• A fight with your partner?

• A deep fear about being seen?

• A life that feels more scheduled than sacred?

You can green smoothie your way through the morning, but if your nervous system is still swimming in adrenaline and your inner world is echoing with loneliness... it won’t matter.

Because food doesn’t fix frequency. It reflects it.

And until we address what the craving is coded over, we’ll keep thinking our willpower is weak, when in truth, our emotional literacy just needs strengthening.

So if your diet "isn’t working," maybe the question isn’t "what should I cut out?"

Maybe it’s: Where am I underfed in life?

Not physically, but spiritually, emotionally, sensorially (is this a word?).

Because when sweetness returns to your life, your body stops screaming for it on your plate.

And until then, if the croissant calls… listen. Not for the guilt, but for the guidance.

It always knows what you forgot to ask for.

Love, Savitree